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with a bright flame, and melt us a path.'
'It is a pity that Elves cannot fly over mountains, and fetch the
Sun to save them,' answered Gandalf. 'Even I need something to
work on. I cannot burn snow. But I could turn Legolas into a
flaming torch, if that will serve: he would burn bright while he
lasted.'
'Spare me!' cried Legolas. 'I fear that a dragon is concealed in
the shape of our wizard. Yet a tame dragon would be useful at
this hour.'
'It will be a wild dragon, if you say any more,' said Gandalf.
'Well, well! When heads are at a loss, bodies must serve, as
they say in my country,' said Boromir. 'I have some strength still
left; and so has Aragorn. We must use that, while it lasts. I will

carry one of the Little Folk, and he another. Two shall be set on
the pony, and led by Gandalf.'
At once he set about unlading Bill. 'Aragorn and I will come
back when we have got the Little Folk through,' he said. 'You,
Legolas and Gimli, can wait here, or follow behind in our track,
if you can.' He picked up Merry and set him on his shoulders.
Trotter took Pippin. Frodo was mounted on the pony, with Sam
clinging behind. They ploughed forward.
At last they reached and passed the turn, and came to the edge
of the drift. Frodo marvelled at the strength of Boromir, seeing
the passage that he had already forced through it with no better
tool than his sword and his great arms.(25) Even now, burdened
as he was with Merry clinging on his back, he was thrusting the
snow forward and aside, and widening the passage for those
who followed. Behind him Trotter was labouring. They were in
the midst of the drift, and Boromir and Merry were almost
through, when a rumbling stone fell from the slope above and,
hurtling close to Frodo's head, thudded deep into the snow. But
with the casting of that last stone the malice of the mountain
seemed to be expended, as if it were satisfied that the invaders
were in retreat and would not dare to return. There was no
further mishap.
On the flat shelf above the steep slope they found, as Boromir
had reported, that the snow was only shallow. There they
waited, while Trotter and Boromir returned with the pony to
fetch the packs and burdens and give some help to Legolas and
the dwarf.
By the time they were all gathered together again morning
was far advanced.

It was Gandalf's reply here ('It is a pity that Elves cannot fly over
mountains, and fetch the Sun to save them') to Legolas' remark
(originally Boromir's, VI.426) about melting a path that led to
Legolas' saying in FR 'I go to find the Sun!', and was very probably (as
I think) the source of the idea that the Elf, so far from being as
helplessly marooned as Gimli, Gandalf, and the hobbits, could run upon